Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea & Lloyd Nolan in "Internes Can't Take Money" (1937)
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At New York's Mountview General
At New York's Mountview General Hospital, the impoverished widow of a bank robber, Janet Haley (Barbara Stanwyck), faints while , an intern at the hospital, Dr. James "Jimmie" Kildare (Joel McCrea), treats her for burns. Janet's been in prison and can't find her baby.
Meanwhile, chief surgeon Dr. Henry J. Fearson (Pierre Watkin) fires intern Dr. Jim Weeks (Lee Bowman) for performing an experimental liver operation during which the patient died.
Later at the bar where Dr. Kildare is having a beer, the two cross paths again as Janet approaches gangster Dan Innes (Stanley Ridges) to find out how to get back her kidnapped daughter. Innes demands $1,000 in order to give Janet any information, but poverty-stricken Janet, a parolee working a dangerous, low-wage job, doesn’t have the money to pay him.
That same night, gangster boss Hanlon (Lloyd Nolan) stumbles in and collapses at the bar with a knife wound. Dr. Kildare performs an impromptu back-room operation with Janet’s help and saves Hanlon's life. A friendship begins to grow between Janet and Dr. Kildare.
The next morning, Janet goes to Innes' residence and he propositions her, but she refuses him. She then goes to work but discovers that she has been fired because of tardiness.
Jimmie decides to visit Janet because she did not show up for her follow-up appointment. He first stops at the bar, where the bartender gives him $1,000 from Hanlon for saving his life.
Later, Janet tries to steal the money, but Jimmie catches her and, disillusioned, leaves. Jimmie returns the money to Hanlon, explaining that interns are not allowed to receive payments for their services.
Finally, Janet agrees to Innes' proposition and gives Jimmie an explanatory note. To repay Jimmie's favor, Hanlon rounds up his men and stops Innes and Janet before they leave town. Innes is shot, however, and Jimmie must perform the experimental liver operation. The operation is successful and Janet is reunited with her long-lost daughter.
A 1937 American Black & White drama film directed by Alfred Santell, produced by Benjamin Glazer, screenplay by Rian James and Theodore Reeves, story by Max Brand, cinematography by Theodor Sparkuhl, starring Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Lloyd Nolan, Stanley Ridges, Lee Bowman, Barry Macollum, Irving Bacon, Steve Pendleton, Pierre Watkin, Charles Lane, and Ellen Drew.
Fay Holden began her long-running stint as Andy Hardy's mother at MGM later in 1937.
Barbara Stanwyck asked director Al Santell to cast Joel McCrea as her leading man, having worked with him twice before. "I want this guy," she told him. "He's going to be a good leading man." This was the third of six film collaborations between Stanwyck and McCrea.
McCrea portrays Dr. Kildare in the character's first screen appearance. This has no connection to the later MGM series.
The film disappointed at the box office, failing to meet its commercial expectations, so no sequel followed. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer acquired the rights and took over Dr Kildare from Paramount Pictures studios, continuing the Dr. Kildare series with "Young Dr. Kildare" (1938) starring Lew Ayres as Kildare and Laraine Day as a nurse in love with Kildare. The film was released in the United Kingdom as "You Can't Take Money".
Despite the movie being a B picture, it is shot and dressed like a far more prestigious vehicle. The art direction by Paramount mainstays Roland Anderson and Hans Dreier are superb, with the hospital and bar sets being stylish and evocative. The hospital set in itself is a thing of beauty, with Art Deco designs and lettering combining with an open plan clinic with large bay windows displaying stylised matte views of the Manhattan skyline. Later, the bar set reverses the feeling, giving a turn of the century, dingy, smoky environment where backroom deals are done and shady mobster hurry back and forth through the grubbily ornate swing doors. A lot of thought has been put into the look of the movie and it lifts the production from a run of the mill melodrama to a brilliantly conceived slice of late Depression life.
The New York Times, critic John T. McManus called the film "[a] nicely performed, well ordered and fairly rational reshuffle of the cinema verities (the chief of which are love, frustration, pathos, suspense, action and ambrosia)" and praised the lead actors: "Miss Stanwyck's work is pleasantly subdued, in contrast to the stormy time she has had in her last picture or so. Joel McCrea, as far as this reviewer is concerned, can do no wrong.
The cast is excellent in this well produced by the numbers Barbara Stanwyck B programmer from Paramount Pictures. A blend of medical drama and gangster film, this is an exciting well paced rendering of the Depression atmosphere. Serious in tone, with plenty of tension, complemented by a grim mood built by Depression-era woes. With its shadowy photography, evocative sets, and moody pre-noir atmosphere, this is worthwhile for fans of the Stanwyck/McCrea pairing.
Meanwhile, chief surgeon Dr. Henry J. Fearson (Pierre Watkin) fires intern Dr. Jim Weeks (Lee Bowman) for performing an experimental liver operation during which the patient died.
Later at the bar where Dr. Kildare is having a beer, the two cross paths again as Janet approaches gangster Dan Innes (Stanley Ridges) to find out how to get back her kidnapped daughter. Innes demands $1,000 in order to give Janet any information, but poverty-stricken Janet, a parolee working a dangerous, low-wage job, doesn’t have the money to pay him.
That same night, gangster boss Hanlon (Lloyd Nolan) stumbles in and collapses at the bar with a knife wound. Dr. Kildare performs an impromptu back-room operation with Janet’s help and saves Hanlon's life. A friendship begins to grow between Janet and Dr. Kildare.
The next morning, Janet goes to Innes' residence and he propositions her, but she refuses him. She then goes to work but discovers that she has been fired because of tardiness.
Jimmie decides to visit Janet because she did not show up for her follow-up appointment. He first stops at the bar, where the bartender gives him $1,000 from Hanlon for saving his life.
Later, Janet tries to steal the money, but Jimmie catches her and, disillusioned, leaves. Jimmie returns the money to Hanlon, explaining that interns are not allowed to receive payments for their services.
Finally, Janet agrees to Innes' proposition and gives Jimmie an explanatory note. To repay Jimmie's favor, Hanlon rounds up his men and stops Innes and Janet before they leave town. Innes is shot, however, and Jimmie must perform the experimental liver operation. The operation is successful and Janet is reunited with her long-lost daughter.
A 1937 American Black & White drama film directed by Alfred Santell, produced by Benjamin Glazer, screenplay by Rian James and Theodore Reeves, story by Max Brand, cinematography by Theodor Sparkuhl, starring Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Lloyd Nolan, Stanley Ridges, Lee Bowman, Barry Macollum, Irving Bacon, Steve Pendleton, Pierre Watkin, Charles Lane, and Ellen Drew.
Fay Holden began her long-running stint as Andy Hardy's mother at MGM later in 1937.
Barbara Stanwyck asked director Al Santell to cast Joel McCrea as her leading man, having worked with him twice before. "I want this guy," she told him. "He's going to be a good leading man." This was the third of six film collaborations between Stanwyck and McCrea.
McCrea portrays Dr. Kildare in the character's first screen appearance. This has no connection to the later MGM series.
The film disappointed at the box office, failing to meet its commercial expectations, so no sequel followed. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer acquired the rights and took over Dr Kildare from Paramount Pictures studios, continuing the Dr. Kildare series with "Young Dr. Kildare" (1938) starring Lew Ayres as Kildare and Laraine Day as a nurse in love with Kildare. The film was released in the United Kingdom as "You Can't Take Money".
Despite the movie being a B picture, it is shot and dressed like a far more prestigious vehicle. The art direction by Paramount mainstays Roland Anderson and Hans Dreier are superb, with the hospital and bar sets being stylish and evocative. The hospital set in itself is a thing of beauty, with Art Deco designs and lettering combining with an open plan clinic with large bay windows displaying stylised matte views of the Manhattan skyline. Later, the bar set reverses the feeling, giving a turn of the century, dingy, smoky environment where backroom deals are done and shady mobster hurry back and forth through the grubbily ornate swing doors. A lot of thought has been put into the look of the movie and it lifts the production from a run of the mill melodrama to a brilliantly conceived slice of late Depression life.
The New York Times, critic John T. McManus called the film "[a] nicely performed, well ordered and fairly rational reshuffle of the cinema verities (the chief of which are love, frustration, pathos, suspense, action and ambrosia)" and praised the lead actors: "Miss Stanwyck's work is pleasantly subdued, in contrast to the stormy time she has had in her last picture or so. Joel McCrea, as far as this reviewer is concerned, can do no wrong.
The cast is excellent in this well produced by the numbers Barbara Stanwyck B programmer from Paramount Pictures. A blend of medical drama and gangster film, this is an exciting well paced rendering of the Depression atmosphere. Serious in tone, with plenty of tension, complemented by a grim mood built by Depression-era woes. With its shadowy photography, evocative sets, and moody pre-noir atmosphere, this is worthwhile for fans of the Stanwyck/McCrea pairing.
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